As usual Haining elects to publicly display his stupidity and fails to differentiate between the meaning of the words "secure" & "give".Normal Wisdom wrote: Looks like a public Q&A meeting with the leader of the council where Ceylon, Tom and several other idiots turned up to demonstrate their embarrassing ignorance. Ceylon seizes upon part of it to expose the Council Leader "lying" about funding the renovation of Nottingham Station. The main problem is that neither the questioner or Ceylon seems to be understand what "securing the funding" actually means. As ever, their level of stupidity and desperation is frightening.
Just for the record cash for the project included £41m from station owners Network Rail, £2.1m from emda, £1.6m from East Midlands Trains and £500,000 from the Rail Heritage Trust.
There was expenditure from Nottingham City Council, but then there were also costs to them with regards to roadworks, pavement works, and other aspects of the project related to work on council property, and benefits from the improvements.
This was all covered in the Nottingham Post on several occasions, at the time, and explained to those effected by the works, perhaps he should call his friend on 07973484515 and ask, or maybe Ellie Cullen, from the Post can it explain it to him 15 times!!!1!
Eta. The refurbishment finished on November 26th, 2014, and obviously the funding was secured before it began, so not only is Haining wrong, as usual, but the story is old.